List of family members, Relatives who attended the Shrastabdi poorthi function for Chi Ramesh and Pommi
The function was well attended. First generation Akkama`s Parivar was in full strength with the exception of Chi.Sow Uma( on grand daugter`s duty in UK, her sister Smt Rama filled the void to some extant. She landed from US at 9am but managed to be in time for the function), and Shamarao Bava(He was at Bangalore on 19th for Bhavaji`s anniversary and had to return to Madras for Ugadi. He had blessed the old couple in advance). From the second and third generation mbfamily the entire Bangalore based were there in full strength, excepting for Krupa`s children Sham and Jyotsna who had to miss because of exams). Krishna Swamy anna and Shanta vainy had come from Delhi,Vittal, Sudha vainy and Suparna had come from Mysore.Pranesh Lakshmi, Lannu, Latha, Jagan and Pavan had come from Chennai. From Davanagere Shashikanth, Ropoa and Sachin were there and from US there was the American, Chi Sanjana. From amongst the elders who came to bless the old couple were, "Radhabai Kakki"(Wife of Bhavaji`s brother Late Sri Raghavendra Rao)the eldest in the family ,Chi Mala`s Parents in law, Sundar Mama(Akkamma`s brother, the other brother Ramanna Mama was away at Bombay). Roopa`s Parents in law from Davanagere, Vidya`s parents in law, Alaka`s parents inlaw and Lavanya`s mother in law`
Bangalore based mbfamily present were:
Gopinath,Kamala,Vatsala,Madhav,Uma,Dr.Prakash,Pratima,Poornima,Vani,Ravindra Sharma
Sanjay,Swarna,Pavanaram and Pramod
Raghu,Suma,Guru,Bindu.
Raghesh
Suresh,Smitha,Santosh and Sunil
Prakash(He had to miss some part and lunch because of the Budget)
Mala,Ranganath,Ambika and Priya
Some of the others present were:
1st cousins;
Kumudu and her husband Lakshmana Rao
Vanaja and her husband Pranesh Rao
Ravi with wife Rama
Prabhakar with wife Swayamprabha
Badarinath (wife Chaya had cataract operation recently and could not come)
Vijayasarathy with wife Uma
Gopinath`s wife Jayashri(Kala)
Krishna with wife Kala(It was their silver wedding anniversary. They brought with them Prasadams from Devara hosalli Temple)
2nd cousins:
Mani with her husband Narasimha Murthy
Sundaru with wife
Malathi with her husband Venkata Rao
Nagendra with wife Yashoda
Pommi`s side elders:
Her father's cousins:
Padmaja Aunty and her sisters Vasanthu,Parimala,Meera and Sarasu
Raganna kaka and Saraswathi Kaki
Venkata Rao Kaka and Sumitra Kaki
Neela Atte.
Oother religious persons who graced the occasion and blessed the couple were:
Sri Praneshachar of the Hulimavu Rayara mata
Sri Nanjunda Sharma, the Veda teacher from Shankara School of culture
Also present were a large number of family friends and friends of Ramesh and Pommi
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